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Check out our exciting course offerings for Summer 2017! Included are courses required for the major, upper-division film electives, a production course, and even a course for nonmajors.

The following courses have been approved to count for upper-division elective credit in the Film Studies major for Spring 2017. Please visit their respective department websites for course descriptions and further information. 

AFRICAM 142AC – Race in American Film

ARMENI 126 – Armenian Culture and Film

EALANG 105 – Dynamics of Romantic Core Values in East Asian Premodern Literature and Contemporary Film

ETHSTD 122AC – Ethnicity and Race in Contemporary American Films

Save the date!

The Spring 2017 Rhetoric and Film commencement will be held Wednesday, May 17th, 2017 at 2:00 pm in the Zellerbach Auditorium. Details to follow in the coming weeks and months! 

Film & Media Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Berkeley

Conference Date: September 23–24th 2016

Location: University of California, Berkeley

Paper proposals due June 30th, 2016.

Students! Looking to connect with the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media over the summer? Check out these events!

Summer 2016 Classes – Avant-Garde, documentary, horror, Game of Thrones and more! 

Friday, March 4, 2016

This year’s commencement ceremony will be held on Wednesday, May 18th, 2016 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm at Zellerbach Hall, with a reception immediately following the event from 4:00 – 5:00 pm. 

M 2-5 262 Dwinelle – CCN: 17359 – Miryam Sas

The Grizzly Bay Film and Arts Festival, an upcoming event run by UC Berkeley students at the Eta chapter of Delta Kappa Alpha, a national cinema fraternity, and with sponsorship in part by another Cal club, GiANT Filmmakers,

Congratulations to Patrick Ellis and Chris Goetz, honorees of the 2014-15 Outstanding GSI Award!

Presented by the Department of Film & Media, University of California, Berkeley

The Department is pleased to announce that we will be able to add two courses in film and video production in spring 2015:  Film 185 (The Language of Cinema) and Film 186 (Special Topics in Moving Image Production).  As soon as these classes are scheduled, detailed information will be available on our Courses page.  Please get in touch with Lisa Fox if you have any questions in the meantime.

On February 26-28, the Department of Film & Media at the University of California Berkeley will host the Third International Berkeley Conference on Film and Media: Serialities 1915/2015.